How To Install chezscheme on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install chezscheme
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is chezscheme
chezscheme is:
Chez Scheme is both a programming language and an implementation of that language, with supporting tools and documentation.
As a superset of the language described in the Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (R6RS), Chez Scheme supports all standard features of Scheme, including first-class procedures, proper treatment of tail calls, continuations, user-defined records, libraries, exceptions, and hygienic macro expansion.
Chez Scheme also includes extensive support for interfacing with C and other languages, support for multiple threads possibly running on multiple cores, non-blocking I/O, and many other features.
There are three methods to install chezscheme
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install chezscheme Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install chezscheme
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install chezscheme
Install chezscheme Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install chezscheme
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install chezscheme
Install chezscheme Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install chezscheme
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install chezscheme
How To Uninstall chezscheme on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the chezscheme
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove chezscheme
Uninstall chezscheme And Its Dependencies
To uninstall chezscheme
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove chezscheme
Remove chezscheme Configurations and Data
To remove chezscheme
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge chezscheme
Remove chezscheme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove chezscheme
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chezscheme
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chezscheme
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.